Agnosticism

The debate of the creation of the Universe, has been going on since the first humans walked the Earth. We as humans are curious creatures, and always want to know all of the answers. In the Frank Turek vs. David Silverman debate they both believe they have the more realistic view of how the Universe came to be. These types of debates can get heated quickly not only between speakers, but between the audience members, too. That is why I really appreciated what the opening speaker asked the people in the audience to do. He asked them to “lay down their weapons” and give each speaker a chance. He also said, “You don’t have to agree with an idea to entertain it," and that is exactly what you need to do while watching these kinds of debates. The first debater is Frank Turek, and he presented the theistic view. He used an acrostic to layout his opening statements. The acrostic was CRIMES and it stood for Cosmos, reason, information, morality, evil, and science. He starts by talking about the Cosmos, in this first statement he simply said, “I do believe the Big Bang happen, I just know who banged it”. Next, is reason, he made the statement that if you are an atheist you can’t justify reason. He went on to give a list of things we can’t do if atheism is true. If atheism is true our minds are just molecular machines, which means: no free will, we don’t reason, just react, which means you can’t trust any of your thoughts including the thought that atheism is true. Darwin had this same…

Quid Sit: What is Anthropomorphism and Agnosticism In Danielou’s chapter 2, The God of the Philosophers, two terms ,anthropomorphism and agnosticism, are brought to the reader’s attention midway through the chapter regarding God’s personality. Anthropomorphism is when human characteristics are given to God, and agnosticism is opposite of agnosticism because it means that God is either unknown or unknowable. “Le Roy puts the antinomy as follows: Either we shall define the word personality and…

Karunanidhi. As Pandian has contended, Parasakthi, discharged in 1952 hints at the ideological trade off that a social development re-building itself as a political gathering is compelled to go into. The lesson in "agnosticism," for a certain something, is not as sharp as it first shows up. Also, on the topic of ladies’ celibacy, the film takes a conservative stand . In any case, one thing that recognizes these DMK movies from a later kind is the accentuation on the correspondence of a…

agnostics' condition. Porter cleverly points out that the ignorance of God, which was regarded as a sin, "is now taught as a necessity of reason" and "the unknowableness of God has been formulated as a philosophy." Thomas. H. Huxley coined the words "agnosticism" and "agnostic" in the 19th century. Robert Flint comments that Huxley could have used the words "skepticism" and "skeptic" instead of inventing new terminologies. In fact, Norman Geisler introduces "the skepticism of David Hume" as a…

Our own actions however, determine if we participate with an individual religion. If one has an atheistic view on religion it might seem as though they would be non-religious, and would not have any effects of being religious in any way. Agnosticism defined as “... doctrine or tenets with regard to the existence of anything beyond and behind material phenomena or to knowledge of a First Cause or God.”(Agnosticism) religion is often similarly defined as “doctrine or tenets” however with a purely…

If one was to stop and think about humanism, they could narrow it down to considering it a philosophy, a religion, or maybe even both. Humanism is a view that think that human needs are more important than supernatural needs. After a small time of research, humanism should be considered a philosophy. Humanism cannot be a religion, because every religion has a god. Some may think, “Well what about atheism or agnosticism?” Atheism and agnosticism is not a religion. Atheists do not believe in…

something that is extraordinary such as mysterious powers, something free of what many doctrines considers as unclean. Also anything referred to as sacred is associated with both the evil and also good due to its mysterious power. When looking what a definition of religion is that anything that carries a position on divine life and afterlife. At this juncture, one can be able to position him or herself on a decision whether atheism or agnosticism fall under or considered as a religion. In…

atheism. Both theism and atheism, however, make assumptions about the GCB’s nature that we cannot know for certain are true, such as the extent of its goodness, powerfulness, or knowledge of all things. The best way to address the question of the existence of a GCB is, rather, through agnosticism; because a GCB cannot be fully understood, the truth of its existence is unknowable (Holt). One strong argument for theism is that of Blaise Pascal’s wager. Pascal proposes that one can wager their…

stake, normal neutrality isn’t possible” (7). Thus meaning that in societies like equality's, mysticism is rejected, as well as individualism. Being that the leaders of the society in the novel that Equality is housed in believes the great truth of all is, as stated in Anthem, “that all men are one and that there is no will save the will of all men together” (20), which creates an irrational society, also nothing more than “moral cowards, paralyzed by the absence of the self principles” (17) as…

Since I never thought about the issue of my worldview, I had to think for a while about what my worldview is. As I read through the entire list, I found out that I am between a lot of worldviews, such as agnosticism and apatheism. Since my parents didn’t really have any religion, I felt it wasn’t necessary to have a religion. Maybe this is the reason why one of my worldviews is agnosticism, since I believe God doesn't exist. To justify my world view, I have relativistic and absolute truth…